Switch up your gallery - wall by thinking beyond a photo, print or painting and welcome some imaginative methods to personalise your area and change dull walls. Whether in your living room, corridor, or along the staircase, gallery walls offer us the chance to personalise our design with a curated display. If you expensive offering your display a mini transformation, all you require is good photo frames, imagination, and your creativity.
Here are seven alternative methods to fill a image frame.
Dried flowers
‘ The ease with which we can alter our gallery wall shows lends itself to matching seasonal change. And now the landscape is awash with daffodils and forget-me-nots, we can invite spring to your home with the addition of dried flowers to our photo frames -,’ states Kayleigh Jordan, interior specialist at Photo Frames and Art -.
Present pattern, colour and shapes with a selection of flowers. Why not collect tulips, crocuses, and snakes head fritillary for a fantastic dry flower assembly? Whatever you select, pressed flowers will be ideal for a spring/summer wall update.
With this type of curated display, select easy frames with little or no decoration, in solid black or white, recommends Kayleigh.
Maps
vintage antquie map of plymouth, england in 1880
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Another great way to include character to a gallery wall is by framing maps. Replicas of ancient lands and lost landscapes invite new worlds into the home, while modern maps of desirable locations awakens wanderlust.
Think of nautical charts and open sea maps, which work especially well in office, while topographic maps will fit modern interiors. ‘An ensemble of thematic maps fit spaces and homes with distinct colour themes considering that they are typically monochrome or two toned,’ includes Kayleigh.
For picture frames, distressed frames with a used feel can work particularly well with map-themed wall galleries.
Publication covers
From renowned cover stars to limited edition covers and artful photography that deserves a Cover of the Year award, magazine covers make excellent photo screens— just like pictures they can stimulate time, location, and memory. For instance, if you want a gallery of vintage Style covers you can select the covers based on a specific style, age, designer, or design, for instance.
Once again, less is more here and you must let the magazine cover be the centerpiece, so select plain photo frames to display these.
Notes and letters
Why not frame notes and letters from household, buddies and loved and lost ones? These can work brilliantly in spaces across the home, depending upon the nature and style of the letter and its author.
Displaying these in frames takes letters from forgotten memory into an every day tip of what and who we treasure. Including original envelopes will be both sentimentally and aesthetically pleasing.
A more playful gallery wall might include post-it notes, whimsical doodles and back-of-a-napkin scribbles, recommends Kayleigh. ‘These kinds of screens provide themselves to brighter, more spirited spaces,’ she states.
Mementos
Framing treasured keepsakes is mainly about remembering individuals, location and time. This can be stimulated by movie theater tickets, bracelets, certificates, journal pages or ornaments. Whatever you possess that holds memories can be provided dutifully in photo frames.
‘ Naturally, older things will provide themselves to vintage-style frames and quirkier items are best provided in cleaner, easier frames,’ recommends Kayleigh.
Classic adverts
Adverts, posters or signs from the past have a really characterful, off-centre quality and could be perfect for jazzing up the least-visited spaces in the home.
‘ Like publication covers, vintage adverts have the pleasing characteristic of including the finesse of stunning photography, design and lettering– and the range of vintage adverts available means you can offer considerable thought to how you wish to thematically curate the gallery,’ states Kayleigh. ‘A good suggestion is to think of a brand with a strong advertising history, one that matches what is included in the room, and get adverts that highlight their colourful, characterful history through the years.’
Kayleigh says adverts from the golden era of advertising (1960s– 80s) work especially well in contemporary, leaner frames. Combining them provides an instant and brilliant uplift to a room.
Poetry
‘ Poetry is the alternative I typically recommend for living spaces,’ states Kayleigh, who recommends using pages from poetry collections, rather than purchasing poems in the form of posters and prints. ‘My personal taste lends me to select pages from Shakespeare’s sonnets because of their fantastic familiarity and quick, impactful nature.’
Pick bold, stylised frames to display these delicate poetry pages.
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